Our mission at Holy Spirit Primary is to seek to live our lives like Jesus, work and love as a family, and learn and challenge each other so that together we grow. We believe that in seeking to live our lives like Jesus we give witness to gospel values, proclaim our Catholic faith and traditions through a vibrant Religious Education curriculum, celebrate and reflect through prayer, liturgy and scripture, and reach out to the poor and work for justice. In seeking to work and love as a family we promote and support the partnership of home, school and parish, value the unity, diversity and harmony of our community. We are inviting, welcoming and accepting of all, and enjoy the opportunity to celebrate. In seeking to learn and challenge each other we provide a safe, friendly, collaborative learning environment, promote learning for life, are purposeful and explicit with high expectations, and support a variety of learners. The school is located in western Sydney. Central to our mission is the provision of a dynamic education to meet the needs of 21st century learners. The school’s current enrolment of 410 students is a rich tapestry of cultures including children from Anglo-Celtic, Middle Eastern, African, Filipino, Indian, Sri Lankan and Maltese backgrounds. The children from these backgrounds account for 60% of the school’s total population. During 2010 the school has undergone a major refurbishment providing open, modern learning spaces with specialist facilities to meet the needs of 21st century learners. Teachers and students are working together in open, collaborative learning environments. This is a deliberate strategy to better prepare our students for a world where they will need to know how to keep learning, use digital technology and communication tools to access, manage, integrate and evaluate information, construct new knowledge, and communicate with others in the wider world, in order to participate productively in society. Gospel values permeate our school program and form the framework for warm..